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RM BUILDING CODE <br /> <br />:luded in net area. A <br />'ideal per shelter <br />nute per person shall <br /> <br />e sufficient to main- <br />re than 82°F. for at <br /> <br />red. <br />,gas and oil shall not <br />aade to control such <br /> <br />' spaced exits from a <br />outdoors. <br />of egress <br />I a single exit be less <br /> <br />~t shelters shall have <br /> <br />e of dual-use fallout <br />:shall govern, except <br /> <br />ye loads for floor <br />Jnds per square foot <br /> <br />n the normal water <br />'ided on the basis of <br /> toilets may <br /> may <br /> <br />1976 EDITION <br /> <br />7001-?004--APPENDIX <br /> <br /> · Chapter 70 <br /> EXCAVATION AND GRADING <br />Purpose <br /> Sec. 7001. The purpose of this Chapter is to safeguard life, limb, prop- <br />erty and the public welfare by regulating grading on private property. <br /> <br />Scope <br /> Sec. 7002. This Chapter sets forth rules and regulations to control ex- <br />cavation, grading and earthwork construction, inclu'ding fills and em- <br />bankments; establishes the administrative procedure for issuance of per- <br />mits; and provides for approval of plans and inspection of grading con- <br />struction. <br /> <br />Permits Required <br /> Sec. 7003. No person shall do any grading without first having obtained <br />a grading permit h'om the Building Official except for the following: <br /> 1. Grading in an isolated, self contained area if there is no danger <br />parent to private or public property. <br /> 2. An excavation below finished grade for basements and footings of a <br />building, retaining wall or other structure authorized by a valid building <br />permit. This shall not exempt any fill made with the material from such <br />cavation nor exempt any excavation having an unsupported height greater <br />than 5 feet after the completion of such structure. 3. Cemetery graves. <br /> 4. Refuse disposal sites controlled by other regulations. <br /> 5. Excavations for wells or tunnels or utilities. <br /> 6. Mining, quarrying, excavating, processing, stockpiling of rock, sand, <br />gravel, aggregate or clay where established and provided for by law pro- <br />vided such operations do not affect the lateral support or increase the <br />stresses in or pressure upofi any adjacem or contiguous property. <br /> 7. Exploratory excavations under the direction of soil engineers or <br />engineering geologists. <br /> 8. An excavation which (a) is less than 2 feet in depth, or (b) which does <br />not create a cut slope greater than 5 feet in height a. nd steeper than one and <br />one-half horizontal to one vertical. <br /> 9. A fill less than I foot in depth, and placed on natural terrain with a <br />slope flatter than five horizontal to one vertical, or less than 3 feet in <br />depth, not intended to support structures, which does not exceed 50 cubic <br />yards on any one lot and does not obstruct a drainage course. <br /> <br />Hazards <br /> Sec. 7004. Whenever the Building Official determines that any existing <br />excavation or embankment or fill on private property has become a hazard <br />to life and limb, or endangers property, or adversely affects the safety, use <br /> <br />677' <br /> <br /> <br />